A sculpture created in memory of “Tombili,” the portly cat who became a social media phenomenon after being photographed posing on a sidewalk in Istanbul’s Ziverbey neighborhood, will be inaugurated on Oct. 4 on World Animal Day

Recent reports on the risk of collapse in one of the pavilions of Topkapı Palace follow decades of neglect of Turkey’s historical heritage, the journalist who broke the story, Ömer Erbil, tells the Hürriyet Daily News. ‘The current administration, as well as previous ones, have never governed Istanbul with the awareness that it is a historical city,’ Erbil says

Turkish Culture Minister Nabi Avcı visited Istanbul’s historical Topkapı Palace on Oct. 3 after news reports that the popular Ottoman-era tourist site is riddled with dangerous cracks in its treasury room

Authorities at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul are probing a hole three meters in diameter that appeared two weeks ago in the yard of the famous tourist attraction, soon after deep cracks were discovered in the basement of the building’s treasury pavilion